Soon Your Next Smartphone Will Come With an Unbreakable Screen

Remember that feeling when your phone accidentally slipped from your hands and fell really hard on the concrete floor face first…?

Well soon you may never have to experience it ever again. Researchers at the University of Akron in the United States are working on a film for smartphone screens that is shatter-proof.
They’ve made the film from combining a transparent layer of electrodes over a polymer surface making the new screens substantially tougher than the current Gorilla Glass screen being used on smartphones.

These new screens are so flexible they can be bent 1,000 times without breaking. That’s science for you.
And even better, the technology is cheaper to make than current smartphone screens because it is easier to mass-produce it in rolls.
Though there is still no set date that these new screens will go into market, the scientists in charge are certain that it will be used in future.
Flexible, virtually unbreakable screens have been in development for quite some time, but have yet to make their way into a commercial product. Samsung, for example, said at its most recent Analyst Day that it may bring fully- flexible smartphones to the market in the 2015-2016 time frame.